Tag: happiness
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Eutopia in a bubble
Have you ever frozen time, captured perfection, wrapped it in a bubble and discovered your Eutopia? To do that even once, is to come closer to who we were meant to be…
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The power of the unexpected
It only takes something like an unexpected snow fall to make at least half a city of 25 million like Shanghai smile 🙂
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Day 12~ October 12th~ Yunnan
Do you remember the last time you laughed with all of your heart while shuffling papers at work in your office? Does the stress in our lives allow us the luxury of a real body shaking laugh? Simple people who lead simple lives have the precious access to simple happiness, the best kind of happiness…
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Day 17~ August 17th~ Boracay
If you had to fly almost all day to reach your holiday destination, then drive in a bus for more than 2 hours, followed by a rough ferry ride and finally climb in a rickshaw to reach your hotel, what would be the first thing you think of doing upon arrival? Normally adults would want…
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Day 18~ July 18th~ Vietnam
When life is simple, even a little dog with a few tricks can make someone laugh with all their hearts, because the less complicated the life, the more room there is for happiness. photo taken: old man and dog in Hanoi~ Vietnam
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Day 27~ May 27th~ Cambodia
In the streets of Phnom Penh, this lovely young man was content selling drops of joy in floating balloon forms…
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Day 10~ March 10th~ Egypt
When ‘joy’ is able to attend you, life takes on a brilliant glow… Imagine these simple moments of connection, when meeting some stranger’s eyes can cause you and them both to overflow with joy, with a contentment and a knowing that all is well and a great unexplainable happiness is present at the thought of…
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Day Three~ February 3rd~ Lebanon
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” Khalil Gibran Designed by the Italian sculptor Renato Marino Mazzacurati and placed in downtown Beirut in 1960, this statue stands witness to the horrors of the civil war in Lebanon with its many bullet holes that are left as a reminder…
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Day Three Hundred Five, November 23, 2011
We live at a time where most people have broken their connection to the land. What I mean by that is the connection that is born out of planting your own food, getting your hands dirty with soil, spending time daily in your garden, sleeping under trees, hunting for your food, the way humans were…